Dementia: - The drugs don't work, but so much can - Medicine's standard response to dementia is a prescription drug, ranging from an antipsychotic, an antidepressant or a mood stabilizer. But a new stu...

Antipsychotics: - They don't work, and they're dangerous - Doctors in nursing homes prescribe antipsychotic drugs with the same lack of thought that the service staff employs to place the order for tomorrow's...

MENTAL HEALTH GUIDE - The demands of modern life sadly mean that many of us will suffer some form of mental illness - whether depression, fatigue, irrational fear or even s...

Driven mad by the new mental health bill; but don’t be guilty of scare - I wish to express in a very loud voice my strong opposition to this new Mental Health Bill to replace the Mental Health Act of 1983.

Dementia drugs - Before him, the disease didn’t have a name, says the ad for Aricept (donepezil hydrochloride), with a portrait of Dr Alois Alzheimer, the man who gave...

Mental health: government of one mind - You may have read that the iniquitous Mental Health Bill has not been included in this Parliament s sessions So thank you to everyone who responded...

Safer use of antipsychotic drugs - Make sure that your symptoms have not been caused by other drugs. The Health Research Group, America's drugs watchdog, says that anyone of any age...

Mental Health: Just 18 per cent of Americans are ever treated - Just 18 per cent of Americans with a mental problem are ever treated, a new study has discovered. And less than half of those with even a severe ment...